VMware Job Trends in the North of England

VMware
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 79 69
Rank change year-on-year -52 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing VMware 157 269 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 2.96% 3.63%
As % of the Vendors category 4.88% 8.98% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 119 164 270
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £62,875 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £58,375 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Vendors
North of England

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,215 2,997 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.84% 32.96% 36.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,846 1,463 2,525
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.14% -4.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

VMware job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the North of England

VMware
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -27 66 £40,000 -11.11% 26
North West -55 55 £45,000 - 38
North East +21 36 £31,500 -18.71% 10
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 53 (33.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (11.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) FactoryTalk
3 2 (1.27%) WinCC
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (19.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.91%) Siemens NX
3 2 (1.27%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (61.78%) Microsoft 365
2 90 (57.32%) Azure
3 23 (14.65%) AWS
4 17 (10.83%) Entra ID
5 15 (9.55%) SaaS
6 9 (5.73%) Google Workspace
7 6 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.18%) GitHub
8 5 (3.18%) IaaS
8 5 (3.18%) PaaS
9 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.55%) GCP
10 3 (1.91%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.64%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.64%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (36.31%) Firewall
2 34 (21.66%) TCP/IP
3 27 (17.20%) DHCP
3 27 (17.20%) DNS
4 25 (15.92%) VLAN
5 24 (15.29%) VPN
6 23 (14.65%) SAN
7 18 (11.46%) WAN
8 15 (9.55%) LAN
9 10 (6.37%) Wireless
10 9 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (4.46%) Network Security
12 4 (2.55%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.27%) Ethernet
15 1 (0.64%) BGP
15 1 (0.64%) IPsec
15 1 (0.64%) OSPF
15 1 (0.64%) VoIP
15 1 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.82%) MySQL
3 5 (3.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.20%) Manufacturing
3 14 (8.92%) Advertising
4 12 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.37%) Finance
6 6 (3.82%) Law
6 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.18%) Legal
7 5 (3.18%) Retail
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 52 (33.12%) IT Support
2 32 (20.38%) Support Engineer
3 26 (16.56%) Senior
4 25 (15.92%) IT Engineer
5 24 (15.29%) Support Technician
6 20 (12.74%) Technical Support
7 19 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (12.10%) IT Support Engineer
8 18 (11.46%) VMware Engineer
9 17 (10.83%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (10.83%) Technical Support Engineer
10 14 (8.92%) IT Technician
11 13 (8.28%) 3rd Line Support
11 13 (8.28%) IT Support Technician
12 12 (7.64%) Analyst
13 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure Support
13 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure Support Technician
13 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure Technician
14 10 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (5.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.91%) Itk
2 2 (1.27%) .NET
2 2 (1.27%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.27%) Software Packaging
2 2 (1.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.46%) Driving Licence
2 14 (8.92%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.92%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.10%) Replication
4 7 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.82%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.55%) NHS
8 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.27%) SCADA
10 1 (0.64%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.64%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.64%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 92 (58.60%) Windows
2 69 (43.95%) Windows Server
3 31 (19.75%) Linux
4 17 (10.83%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.10%) Mac OS
6 7 (4.46%) Android
7 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.91%) VMS
8 3 (1.91%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.91%) Windows 8
9 2 (1.27%) CentOS
9 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.64%) Solaris
10 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.39%) ITIL
2 35 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (18.47%) Customer Service
4 21 (13.38%) Project Delivery
5 18 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (10.83%) Service Delivery
7 16 (10.19%) DevOps
8 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (8.28%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (8.28%) Migration
10 11 (7.01%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (7.01%) Server Management
11 10 (6.37%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.73%) Customer-Centricity
12 9 (5.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (5.73%) Incident Management
12 9 (5.73%) Mentoring
13 8 (5.10%) Containerisation
13 8 (5.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.20%) PowerShell
2 26 (16.56%) SQL
3 12 (7.64%) Python
4 7 (4.46%) PL/SQL
4 7 (4.46%) VBScript
5 5 (3.18%) Bicep
6 3 (1.91%) Bash
6 3 (1.91%) Tcl
7 2 (1.27%) C#
7 2 (1.27%) Java
7 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (10.19%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.64%) Degree
3 12 (7.64%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (5.73%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.82%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) HNC
7 3 (1.91%) HND
7 3 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.27%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.64%) CCA
9 1 (0.64%) CCNP
9 1 (0.64%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.91%) SLA
2 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 104 (66.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 85 (54.14%) Active Directory
3 74 (47.13%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.01%) vSphere
5 10 (6.37%) Docker
6 5 (3.18%) Firmware
6 5 (3.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.55%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (9.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (8.92%) FortiGate
3 13 (8.28%) Terraform
4 11 (7.01%) Kubernetes
5 10 (6.37%) Ansible
6 6 (3.82%) SCCM
7 3 (1.91%) Autotask
7 3 (1.91%) Grafana
8 2 (1.27%) AssetCenter
8 2 (1.27%) Control-M
8 2 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.27%) Plesk
9 1 (0.64%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.64%) Kibana
9 1 (0.64%) Nagios
9 1 (0.64%) Podman
9 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (68.79%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.75%) Veeam
3 21 (13.38%) Cisco
4 10 (6.37%) Google
4 10 (6.37%) SonicWALL
4 10 (6.37%) WatchGuard
5 8 (5.10%) Citrix
6 7 (4.46%) Dell
7 6 (3.82%) Adobe
8 5 (3.18%) Siemens
9 4 (2.55%) HP
9 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.55%) Sage
10 3 (1.91%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (1.91%) ESET
10 3 (1.91%) Nimble Storage
10 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.27%) Kepware
11 2 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.27%) Spotify